Console

01What it does

The Console is a direct line to your server over RCON. Chat, kills, players joining and leaving, warnings and replies to commands all show up live, and you can type any console command just like you would in your server's own console.

It only ever shows output from the server you have open. Your other servers have their own console.

Opening the Console keeps Surge connected to your server while you have it up, even if you haven't turned on any other features yet.

02Running a command

1. 1Open Server Settings > Console.
2. 2Click the input at the bottom (or anywhere in the output) and type a command, like say Hello everyone or serverinfo.
3. 3Press Enter or the Run button.

Your command shows up in the output in green with your name next to it, and the server's reply appears right under it. JSON replies, like serverinfo and playerlist, are laid out so they're easy to read. Very long replies are folded, with a button to show the rest.

If a command gets no reply within 15 seconds you'll see a warning. The server may still have run it, so check before sending it again.

03Autocomplete and history

As you type, the Console suggests commands with a short note on what each one does, plus your saved commands and ones you ran recently. Once you start typing the details, the line under the input shows what the command expects, like global.banid "<player>" "<reason>" "<seconds>".

• Tab fills in the highlighted suggestion.
• Up and Down pick a suggestion, or step through your past commands when no suggestions are showing.
• Esc closes the suggestions, or clears the input.
• Ctrl + L clears the screen.

Your command history is kept in your browser for each server, up to the last 100 commands.

04Reading the output

Lines are coloured and tagged so you can scan them quickly: chat in blue, kills in red, joins in green, warnings in amber and errors in red with a stripe down the side.

• Filters at the top show only Chat, Kills, Joins, Commands, or Warnings & errors. The number on each one is how many lines it has.
• Search narrows the output to lines containing your text and highlights the matches.
• Time and Wrap turn timestamps and line wrapping on or off.
• Save log downloads what you can see as a text file.
• Clear empties your screen. It doesn't delete anything for other admins.
• Full screen gives the Console the whole window. Esc takes you back.

If you scroll up to read something, the output stays where you are, and a button at the bottom shows how many new lines came in. Click it to jump back to the latest.

Hover a line to copy it. On your commands you can also run them again, put them back in the input to tweak, or save them.

05Saved commands

The panel on the right holds commands you use a lot. Click one and it runs straight away. A green flash means the server took it, red means it failed.

1. 1Click Add, or the bookmark next to the input to save what you typed.
2. 2Give it a Name if you like (up to 48 characters). Leave it empty and the command itself is used as the name.
3. 3Type the Command on one line and press Save.

• Use the arrow button to put a saved command in the input first, handy for things like say where the message changes.
• Edit or delete with the pencil and bin.
• Drag saved commands to change their order. On a phone, open one with the pencil and use Move up and Move down.
• Up to 50 saved commands per server. They are shared with every admin of that server.

06Good to know

• Any admin with dashboard access can use the Console. Everyone sees the same output, and each command shows who ran it.
• The commands Surge sends in the background to run your features aren't shown, so the output stays about your server and what admins run.
• The output keeps the last 600 lines for each server. It starts fresh when the Surge bot restarts.
• You can send up to 15 commands every 10 seconds.
• If your server goes offline, the status at the top changes to Server offline and the Console reconnects on its own when the server is back.